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*Dancing Salmon Home wins Best Documentary Feature at the American Indian
Film Festival, San Francisco!*
Chief Caleen Sisk, with other members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, holds
the trophy, accepting for the film's director, Will Doolittle.
*Congratulations from* Censored *News* www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Watch film trailer at Dancing Salmon Home
http://www.dancingsalmonhome.com/index.html

At least three Egyptians were killed and over 30 people injured in a train
crash in Fayoum on Saturday, when a train travelling south from Cairo hit
another heading in the opposite direction, Fayoum’s city governor, security
and medical sources said.
However, a security and a medical source in Fayoum said the toll was higher.
http://www.euronews.com/newswires/1722190-crash-between-two-egyptian-trains-kills-3-injures-dozens/

Killings in Sao Paulo began sharply increasing in September, a month in
which 144 people were killed, the department's website says. It says a
total of 982 homicides took place in the city during the first nine months
of the year.
The victims included 90 police officers, most of them gunned down while off
duty.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/as-least-140-people-murdered-as-wave-of-killings-sweeps-sao-paulo-20121111-2960p.html

TWO people are in a critical condition and 19 others have been injured
after breathing in hydrogen sulfide following a chemical spill at New
Zealand's only leather tannery.
Emergency services were called to Tasman Tanning Company in Whanganui just
before 5pm (1500 AEDT) on Friday following a chemical spill.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/injured-in-chemical-spill-in-nz-tannery/story-fnd134gw-1226509524517

One of the two nuclear reactors at PPL’s Susquehanna plant near Berwick was
shut down early Friday because a computer system that controls the
reactor’s water level was not functioning properly.
Operators and federal regulators are investigating the cause of the
computer problems at Unit 2, according to a press release from the company,
which said the reactor remained in “a safe condition.”
http://triblive.com/home/2933474-74/reactor-unit-shut-blades-computer-sheehan-nuclear-plant-cause-company#axzz2BtdOIj5F

Jefferson Community Health Center in Fairbury — south of Lincoln — was
evacuated Friday afternoon after a hazardous-materials unit discovered a
chemical leak in the hospital’s laundry room.
Assisted-living and long-term-care tenants were taken to a nearby church
after the leak of the unidentified chemical. Four hospital patients also
were taken to other health care facilities.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20121111/NEWS/121119974/1707

The Mayor of New York has told Sky News that it is not acceptable that so
many homes are still without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Speaking at a gathering of volunteers heading to help the residents of
Staten Island, Michael Bloomberg said he had faith in the city's ability to
recover from the storm.
"My priority is to tell people help's on the way," he said.
http://news.sky.com/story/1009813/bloomberg-sandy-power-cuts-not-acceptable

Police launch a manhunt following the disappearance of 19-year-old Amelia
Arnold, who is believed to have been murdered.
Detectives want to question 22-year-old Jack Wall, of Hadrian's Walk,
Stevenage.
http://news.sky.com/story/1009852/man-sought-over-murdered-teen-in-stevenage

Burma's local media say a bridge under construction collapsed in the town
of Shwebo, closest to the epicentre.
In Mandalay, terrified residents dashed out of their homes for safety,
fearing more tremors.
A unnamed government official in the capital Naypidaw told Agence
France-Presse that so far two people were known to have died, three have
been injured and five people are still missing.
A police officer in Shwebo said five construction workers who had been
working on the Radana Thinga bridge near the town were missing after "a
huge steel beam fell into the river".
http://www.bbc... more »

I was back at 37 Elizabeth Road, Haydock; in the living room with its real
coal fire and its long-button TV and its faux-leather couch and its mirror
opposite the fireplace and its floor-length curtains.
I was about to turn the TV on, to check the news(?), when I realised my
daughter and wife were there with me, too. My daughter was TEN YEARS
YOUNGER than she is now and my wife only arrived later, but...
I felt like this was some sort of 'transition' setting. My (younger)
daughter on the couch, like that, sleeping under makeshift linens and
covers, like I did when I was that age, a... more »

Jeffrey Simpson of Canada’s National Website ponders the topic of another
column. High-profile national prognosticators may not appear exactly as
illustrated. More files from the Déjà-Vu-All-Over-Again Dep’t at Canada’s
National Website and the You-Heard-It-Here Dep’t at Alberta Diary : “Are
storm clouds forming in Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s sunny skies?” “…
Ms. Redford’s problem in ... more »

*Rose.*
The spooky journalist David Rose once wrote an article claiming that
nothing much happened at the Jersey children's home Haut de la Garenne.
It was David Rose who told us that Saddam Hussein had links to Al Qaeda.
*David Rose - disinformation agent?*
Now Rose has written an article attacking Steven Messham, a victim of child
abuse.
According to Rose, Messham falsely claimed to have been abused by a senior
police officer.
*A victim of his delusions: troubled star witness*
*
*
The Mail discredits itself by employing Rose.

*What do you see in this man? A radical Islamist who threatens the lives
of all Syrians, or a courageous freedom fighter who is willing to risk it
all to overthrow a hated tyrant?*
Making Jihadist terrorists look respectable, or any terrorists for that
matter, is a tricky and difficult task. But there are ten techniques which
can be mastered and used in the service of any cause, whether righteous or
not. The best propagandists in the world can save the image of the worst
terrorists if they have the sufficient resources and the reputation to
reach people and make them believe thei... more »

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget, and David Cote (c.) CEO of Honeywell international and part of the
steering committee of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, are joined by job
creators or robber barons or modern day knights to ring the opening bell at
the New York Stock Exchange
Sorry to keep harping on this but it's important and no doubt we'll be
reading and hearing about this Grand Bargain bullshit all the way through
Christmas, when they make their "last minute" deal-- picture the Mountie
saving the damsel tied to the railroad tracks. As D... more »

Written by *Robin Mathews*
*The Military Nature of Canadian Colonialism Hardens *
*(Pages 194-206)*
* *Across the Western World a huge conflict is in process. Seen from many
vantages, it looks the same. Parliaments are being subverted. Political
parties are being bought off or successfully indoctrinated with neo-liberal
ideas. The rule of law is being actively and intentionally undermined by
governments, police forces, mainstream media, and the courts. The defenses
of ordinary people against exploiting power are being erased even while the
defenses are being (*hypocritically*) pr... more »

*More here:*
http://www.timesofisrael.com/southern-israel-comes-under-rocket-attack-from-gaza/
*Info conveniently patted on the head:*
"Iron dome" intercepted only 2-3 of the 30 missiles (there were likely more
fired), rendering the system by almost any definition an utter failure.
Strangely, the media, especially Israeli media, refuses to recognizes this,
putting Israeli citizens in jeopardy. This rocket attack did not kill nor
injure anyone aside from a woman who broke her leg running to a shelter
(which she obviously shouldn't have had to do in the first place). The
counter-airst... more »

YouTube video description [Channel -HRIChannel]:
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the phenomenon of child soldiers. The footage of the massacre of prisoners
in Saraqi is evidence not just of a war crime but also of the use of a
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checkpoint and was at the massacre scene. Please support our campaign to
stop the use of child soldiers in Syria!

Frost has arrived more than once at Bramblefields in the past few days and
pretty well finished off the marigolds in the garden...but it has not been
so cold as to stop the petunias from producing a few feeble blossoms.
So you would think some one other than me would wonder why maple leaves
look like this:
Chris Hedges published a scathing account of the somnolent, hypnotized US
electorate, elaborating with his usual eloquence on the ability of average
people to be willfully oblivious to reality - what is known in some circles
as facts. He quotes:
“Crowds have always undergone the i... more »

Blade
is or was a slang term used in Canadian Forces to describe someone who
throws their fellow soldiers, sailors, or flyers under the bus. I'm sure
labour unions and other organisations dependent on cohesive and
selfless teamwork have similar terms.
It is often used in jest, but when it isn't it is one of worst
criticisms you could level or receive.
That's why I find these two CBC items so

Gotta start with this first:
Rick
Berg
Got BEAT in 2012 – BY A GIRL
North Dakota is a red state.
Nothing verifies that better than this posting from HuffPo just before the
2012 election.
From HuffPo 10/31/12
WASHINGTON -- North Dakota Republicans have sent mail to voters in
legislative districts across the eastern part of the state saying that only
Republican legislators will be able to make decisions in the state.
The mail piece, which has brought anger from Democrats, asks if residents
want their state legislator to have a seat at the table to make decisions.
The text explain... more »

The BBC's Director General has resigned but we should not let the BBC
pretend that that can be the end of the matter. The BBC is institutionally
biased against the Conservative party in the UK, the Republican party in
America, Israel, the list could go on and on. Let's use George Entwistle's
resignation to spur on the destruction of the BBC, the country and world
needs this to happen.
Meanwhile here's George Entwistle's resignation statement:
"In the light of the fact that the director general is also the
editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content, and in the
light... more »

In our six-year battle over Mexican American Studies, Tlamanalco has won!
Details are forthcoming...
Our victory took place perhaps 2 years ago... when we ran through the
desert.
But a few politicians got in the way.
You will see details shortly.
The victory is sweet... and we still have to do some fighting... perhaps a
lot more protests... but about our victory, there is no doubt about that.
When the dust clears, people will understand how the youths of our Tucson
community -- kicked a lot of behinds to make this victory possible. But
truly, they turned to our traditions, with th... more »

No, we’re not having avian problems. Rather, we know that our archives are
littered with artifacts of conversion: visible code, weird blockquoting,
and so on. So, the plea: if you come across anything like this, please
email me with the post link so that I can edit it. After a few years, we
might have
Continue reading

In the video above, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell rename the so-called
"fiscal cliff," a fiscal slope or... better yet, a "fiscal curb." And no
behind closed doors deal-making with GOP and Blue Dog corporate whores--
take it to twitter! When you hear someone using the term "fiscal cliff"--
other than to disparage it-- you know that person is a tool of the
plutocrats, or-- if the case of most media talking heads-- too stupid to
know any better or realize they're using charged, well-researched
right-wing propaganda. Richard Trumka. head of the AFL-CIO certainly
understands how... more »

Now that the fraud of the so called US Presidential "Selection" is
officially over, the real crisis that is facing everyone should be taking
precedence... I am of course talking about the total world economic
collapse that will happen very soon, and most probably occur by this coming
January!
For this article, I want to present a very good article from "Horse237" who
writes the excellent blog: Video Rebel's Blog, at
www.vidrebel.wordpress.com, entitled: "The Bankers Will Be Pushing You Off
That Cliff In January". In this article, you will see evidence that these
criminal bankers... more »

*Former Washington, Colorado cops explain: What’s really going to
change now that marijuana is legal?* (via Raw Story )
Following wins for marijuana legalization in Washington and
Colorado on Tuesday night, a former Seattle police chief and a former
Denver police officer sat down with Raw Story to discuss what the laws will
actually do and how they think things will change. “Today is a great day
for America!” exclaimed…
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*Simon Regan. Photo by: Idris Martin. Website for this image*
In 1993, Scallywag magazine printed a rumour that John Major, the UK Prime
Minister, was having an affair.
The New Statesman magazine referred to the rumours.
Major and Currie had four-year affair
John major sued and won his case.
It was later revealed that John Major had had an affair with a certain
Jewish politician.
*Julian Lewis, who twice voted in favour of the Civil Partnership Bill in
2004, and who is a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee which
oversees MI5 and the other security services.*
In 1994... more »

Well, they didn't do so well on reading the tea leaves before the election,
but the GOP is suddenly embracing the reality of the maths after seeing how
badly they fared with the Hispanic vote. At least some of them are.
Thinking this will be the hill where their personal civil war is decided.
Won't be easy for the 27% of their core base to learn to love the all new
and inclusive Republican party. Not that I believe for a minute the new
believers will mean a single word of what they will eventually say, but this
conservative leader sees the GOP's future:
American Conservative Union ... more »

AntiWar
Jason Ditz
The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit by two US
whistleblowers, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, who were tortured by the US
military after coming forward with evidence of wrongdoing by the
contracting company they were working for.
The court ruled that US military commanders“enjoy broad immunity” in cases
of torture abroad and that the military chain of command “couldn’t be
responsible” just because detainee abuse crossed a legal boundary. The
ruling added that torturing detainees is “a part of human nature that is
very difficult to control.... more »

*This is brilliant! -AK*
http://the2012scenario.com/2012/11/occupy-wall-street-campaigners-buy-up-debt-to-abolish-it/#more-151660
As a test run the group spent
$500 on distressed debt, buying
$14,000 worth of outstanding loans *Occupy Wall Street Campaigners Buy-up
Debt To Abolish It*
By Matthew Sparkes, The Telegraph – November 9, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/aj5eup6
The Rolling Jubilee project is seeking donations to help it buy-up
distressed debts, including student loans and outstanding medical bills,
and then wipe the slate clean by writing them off.
Individuals or companie... more »

*Written by Robin Mathews*
*The Biggest Sell-Out. Brian Mulroney and the Move To Free Trade*
*(Pages 140-156)*
* ** ** *
In 1985 Brian Mulroney announced in the House of Commons the intention of
his government to negotiate free trade with the U.S.A. The process was
long. It took until October, 1988 to complete. *The process was dirty*.
Extravagant and false claims were made for the effect it would have. In the
last days of the *“free trade election” *a flood of money poured into the
campaign as the key region of southern Ontario was flooded with advertising
and propaganda wh... more »

An oldie that got me going this morning, in an anti-ALEC type of way:
*You've got opinions, man*
*We're all entitled to 'em*
*But I never asked*
So let me thank you for your time
And try not to waste any more of mine
*Get out of here fast*
*You sound so innocent*
*All full of good intent*
*Swear you know best*
But you expect me to
Jump up onboard with you
*Ride off into your delusional sunset*
*I'm not the one who's lost*
…
Who cares if you disagree? You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be
Who died and made you king of anything?
Who cares i... more »

Hey, I heard there were some elections...
Of course, each one mattered. If you're looking for something that was
particularly up in the air coming in, I'd probably go with the North Dakota
Senate seat in particular, and the +2 result for the Democrats in the
Senate overall; going in that was certainly plausible, so it's not a
last-minute shock or anything, but it easily could have been 53/47 or even
52/48.
On the other hand, if I had to pick one of the close Senate elections which
mattered the most, I'd have to go with Tammy Baldwin.
What didn't matter? How about those teams of law... more »

Negotiations
over next year's European Union budget have collapsed
following a dispute between member states and the European Commission
over
payment of a £7 billion funding shortfall.
Cash-strapped member states have refused to cover the huge funding black
hole for 2012 which the European Commission has requested.
The talks, which essentially ended before they began, could be a sign of
trouble ahead for longer-term EU budget issues.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231005/EU-budget-talks-break-cash-strapped-member-states-refuse-plug-6-7-billion-funding-shortfall.html

I've seen many war memorials. A good many of them are topped by some
heroic-looking lump of bronze depicting a perfect specimen, with immaculate
puttees, a jaw fixed in determination, wielding a Lee Enfield with bayonet
attached and leaning into an implied fray.
Oddly enough these memorials never, absolutely never show us the maimed,
dismembered corpses we're actually there to venerate. We excise the
reality of mayhem to sanitize the slaughter.
Lest We Forget, really?

Exxon (XOM.N) has shut a pipeline off the coast of Nigeria's Akwa Ibom
state after an oil leak started by an unknown cause, the company's local
unit said on Saturday.
The U.S. major's outage will add to production problems in Africa's biggest
crude exporter, after fellow oil majors Shell (RDSa.L) and Eni (ENI.MI)
reported recent disruptions at onshore sites due to Nigeria's worst
flooding in 50 years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/us-exxon-nigeria-leak-idUSBRE8A90BA20121110

Frustration with continuing power outages, travel chaos, and long lines for
gasoline grew on Saturday as residents of Long Island, hit hard by
Superstorm Sandy, planned to a protest outside the headquarters of the
local utility company.
Residents said they would take to the streets for a second day outside the
Long Island Power Authority in Hicksville. There are still over 400,000
customers without power nearly two weeks after the storm, and more than
170,000 are on Long Island.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/us-storm-sandy-hurricane-idUSBRE89N16J20121110

It is hard to sleep at night inside the tent city at Oceanport, New Jersey.
A few hundred Superstorm Sandy refugees have been living here since
Wednesday - a muddy camp that is a sprawling anomaly amidst Mercedes Benz
dealerships and country clubs in this town near the state's devastated
coastal region.
Inside the giant billowy white tents, the massive klieg lights glare down
from the ceiling all night long. The air is loud with the buzz of
generators pumping out power. The post-storm housing — a refugee camp on
the grounds of the Monmouth Park racetrack - is in lockdown, with secu... more »

Israeli tank fire killed four Palestinians and wounded 25 in the Gaza Strip
on Saturday after an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli army jeep wounding
four soldiers, and Palestinian fighters fired rockets into southern Israel
in a new flare-up of fighting.
In a major clash that carried the risk of escalation, Palestinian militants
vowed to take revenge for the deaths of civilians and Israel warned
residents of communities near the Gaza border to stay within 15 seconds of
their blast shelters.
The casualty toll was one of the highest in a single incident in Gaza in
recent months.
ht... more »

The United States has refused a request from Russia that convicted arms
dealer Viktor Bout be returned to his home country to spend the remainder
of his 25-year prison term, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said on
Saturday.
Bout, 54, was sentenced in April after a Manhattan federal court trial jury
convicted him on charges that he agreed to sell arms to people he thought
were militants intent on attacking American soldiers in Colombia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/10/us-russia-usa-bout-idUSBRE8A90BC20121110

The re-election of Barack Obama triggered a flood of truly ugly, racist
tweets.
A group of geography academics calling themselves the "Floating Sheep"
scoured Twitter for the racist tweets and tracked them down by state of
origin. Voila.
Yellow states had relatively low levels of racist tweets. Green states
were found to be the source of high levels of racist tweets.
*"Alabama and Mississippi have the highest LQ measures: They have scores of
8.1 and 7.4, respectively. And the states surrounding these two core states
-- Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee -- also have very high LQ... more »

Aisha North
Channelings and words of inspiration
The manuscript of survival – part 221
As of today, you will all have access to one more frequency in this
symphony of energy that is being played out on your shores. You see, you
have all been opened sufficiently to be able to receive a much wider range
of information than previously, so we will now start to emit signals that
you have been unable to pick up on before. But now you will, and we think
you will all find that these signals will start to bring with them some
very interesting information indeed. Of course, this infor... more »

Teachers, who are the first responders when it comes to children, are doing
their job here in New York. Despite no help from the Department of
Education and the aftermath of the most devastating storm since Katrina,
teachers are now free to bring the joy, caring and love to learning
essential for success in nurturing the "whole child". Education reform is
happening where it matters, on the ground in real classrooms, with or
without lights, electricity, heat or buildings. The material needs are
great, but the spiritual needs which have been neglected for so long
because of the e... more »

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/11/10/where-did-16-million-white-votes-go/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29
*Matt's
thoughts:*
Interesting if truthful. Could one attribute such a discrepancy to
fraud,
or to mere voter apathy? Perhaps interest has waned in participating in a
sinking republic.

Don't they know what happened to their brethren in California? Or is their
innate tribal racism so powerful that they would rather jump over the
cliff-- and not that make believe fiscal one invented by Bernanke and a
p.r. firm-- than go along with a growing national consensus on
comprehensive immigration reform? Boehner knows his party is doomed if the
perception that the GOP hates Hispanics as much as they hate blacks, gays,
women, intelligent people, working-class people, people with disabilities,
etc keeps growing. So right on the heels of Tuesday's massive Republican
losses, B... more »

In 2008 I wrote an essay about the application of Naomi Klein's "shock
doctrine" thesis in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: Nadesan,
M. (2008). Hurricane Katrina: Governmentality, Risk, and Responsibility. *Controversia,
5*(2) 67-90. Naomi Klein warned recently that the same privatization and
exploitation could occur in the wake of Sandy.
Below find excerpts from my 2008 essay and a link to Klein's recent warning:
Neoconservatives and neoliberals alike found in Katrina’s wake the
opportunity space to materialize broad scale economic and social reforms.
Representative M... more »

Do moderate Republicans now wish their party had chosen Santorum or
Gingrich instead of Romney to take on Obama? Some, weighing up their
bitterly divided G.O.P. in the wake of the Obama re-election, think that
might have been the best thing for the party.
*Some believe Romney came close enough to victory to allow an even fight in
the coming Republican civil war and thus ensure a protracted and painful
debate that will stretch on for years. What the party really needed, some
think, was to have nominated a died-in-the-wool ultra-conservative in 2012
such as Rick Santorum or Newt G... more »

You don't hear me crying, weeping in sackcloth and ashes, gnashing my teeth
as if I just had most of my family wiped out in an American mortar strike.
Look, you and I have one thing in common: We didn't vote for Obama. I'd
like to think my opposition to Obama getting re-elected and not doing a
single blessed thing toward helping him achieve that end is based on the
facts and not a writhing nest of paranoid conspiracy theories regarding
Kenya and madrassas and Communist ideologies.
But, like John Wayne said about John F. Kennedy after the 1960 election, my
position is, "I didn't vot... more »

"Support the TROOOOOPS!!!"Why are right-wing militarists so disgustingly
hypocritical? Why do so many military personnel and military families vote
for these turds? All I know is that when Peter MacKay tries to look somber
and martial I laugh out loud.

Robert Reich sees an America increasingly divided into two distinct camps
steadily withdrawing from each other.
*It’s almost a civil war. I know families in which close relatives are no
longer speaking. A dating service says Democrats won’t even consider going
out with Republicans, and vice-versa. My email and twitter feeds contain
messages from strangers I wouldn’t share with my granddaughter.*
*...Maybe it’s that we’re more separated now, geographically and online. *
*The town where I grew up in the 1950s was a GOP stronghold, but Henry
Wallace, FDR’s left-wing vice president, ... more »

*SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 *
*Matthews and Corn move on:* In yesterday’s column, Paul Krugman said Obama
should drive a hard bargain regarding the so-called fiscal cliff.
In Krugman’s view, Obama should be willing to take the risk of going over
the cliff, if it comes to that. His headline: Let's Not Make a Deal.
Last night, we went from over the cliff to under the bus! That’s where two
of your favorite TV stars threw Krugman as they played Hardball.
Chris Matthews was cast in the role of Socrates, with David Corn and Dee
Dee Myers cast as his admiring interlocutors. In the part of... more »

Nov 10, 2012
Paraphrasing: This brief article explains that a $213 million security
system at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory is not yet operable. The laboratory
states it will cost an additional $41 million to fix. The system has been
under construction for 7 years. The cost doubled from what was reported
several weeks ago.

Some media including Dvice.com spread rumors about a possible imminent
Branco Bamma's plan to announce a new space station.
*Yellow is the Earth, blue is the Moon. And 1,2,3,4,5 are the Lx Lagrange
points.*
Instead of resembling the International Space Station that orbits the Earth
just 400+ km above the surface (see current location to check whether you
may see the dot above you), it would be placed in a more exotic place – the
Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point.
The point is located about 60,000 km behind the Moon so you can't see it
from the Earth. I said "it is located". When... more »

In the speech below, Obama tries to express true and honest emotion as if
he is an ordinary human being with normal feelings. It's a sweet and
intimate moment. . . . . . NOT. It's like watching Stalin or some other
historical cult leader cry in front of his die-hard followers to gain their
love.
The religious worship of arrogant, dishonest, and cult-like leaders is
disgusting and sick anywhere in the world. Jim Jones also probably used
tears to steal the hearts of his enchanted followers. Every cult leader
does it. It is a well-known trick. Tears from the dear leader is like rain
f... more »

This is a guest post by Brandon Valeriano of the University of Glasgow. The
post contains mild spoilers, so considered yourself forewarned. Cyberwar is
everywhere. I am sure there is some selection bias in my perspective, but I
canít read the news without finding another ‘cyberwar will be the new
9/11‘article. The narrative? Our digital futures
Continue reading

America's
top scientific research group, the National Research Council, has
warned that nation's military and intelligence agencies that global
warming
will be placing new strains on the way they operate around the world.
"*The National Research Council, says in a study commissioned by the
C.I.A.and other intelligence agencies that clusters of apparently
unrelated
events exacerbated by a warming climate will create more frequent but
unpredictable crises in water supplies, food markets, energy supply
chains
and public health systems. *
* “[Hurricane Sandy] is the sort of thing we were... more »

[image: People view various newspaper front pages showing President Barack
Obama's victory over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on
display at the Newseum in Washington November 7, 2012. REUTERS/Gary Cameron]
Louis Charbonneau
(Reuters) - Hours after U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected, the
United States backed a U.N. committee's call on Wednesday to renew debate
over a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global
conventional arms trade.
U.N. delegates and gun control activists have complained that talks
collapsed in July largely because Obama ... more »

*SUBTRACT 46% ON ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES: *
Do you want the sun to come up tomorrow? YES
Do you want clean drinking water? YES
Do you want your food labeled? YES
Some things are no-brainers, you don't even need a "poll" to tell you that.
In June, ABC did a poll and 93% of Americans want GMO (Genetically
Modified) Foods labeled:
*ABC: Nearly everyone, moreover — 93 percent — says the federal government
should require labels on food saying whether it's been genetically
modified, or "bio-engineered" (this poll used both phrases). Such
near-unanimity in public opinion is rare.*... more »

Business Insider
Joshua Beringer
[image: Obama David Petraeus]
Getty
Former CIA Director David Petraeus' resignation today, following his
confession of an extramarital affair, seemed to come out of nowhere, and
has raised a plethora of questions that will need to be answered in the
coming days.
It's worth asking: was this in any way connected to the September 11 attack
on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi?
Ben Shapiro at Breitbart seems to think so, calling the scandal the "latest
in a string of groundshaking events demonstrating that the Obama
administration hid information vital to ... more »

The Excavator
Saman Mohammadi
*1. Hyper-attention On A Particular Event, Issue, and Mantra.
* The mainstream media exclusively focuses on a single storyline about an
event or an issue, which has the effect of marginalizing other points of
view that are equally valid, if not more so. Narratives, not facts and
objective data, have taken center stage in the aspiring journalist's mind.
Journalists and editors who oversee the making of the news play the same
role as screenwriters in the filmmaking process. Their power stems from the
fact that the public looks at news as "real," whereas t... more »

People who want to rape kids no longer have to go all the way to Pattaya,
Port au Prince, Pennsylvania or Wrexham.
Child brothels are spreading to many cities, and reportedly these brothels
are protected by mafia-connected people in government.
In Edinburgh, the council which runs the city, has granted licence
applications for 15 saunas.
The decision was unanimous.
Many saunas are child brothels run by gangsters.
*Sex slave traffickers are profiting from misery of sauna girls in Scottish
capital*
*Edinburgh. Crossed Wires ?*
An anti-trafficking group, TARA, say they have helpe... more »

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